[Please CC any replies, thanks] Hi,
I've got a situation were I'd really like to be able to have a typmod for a user-defined type. In particular, I'd like to make use of the coerce_to_target_type()/coerce_type_typmod() chain. This only works if you have a typmod != -1. Even if you set the typmod in pg_type, when you create a table it's not copied to the attribute but set back to -1. This has been discussed before[1] and I notice Tom Lane posted a message about this back in June last year. I was wondering if it would be possible to allow user-defined types to declare a typmod function. As an experiment I added arguments to GenericType but that gave reduce/reduce conflicts. OTOH if you just add to SimpleTypename it just works. I imagine this limits the places it can work. Tom Lanes patch[2] looks like it may work, but would a mechanism to allow user-defined types to have a typmod function be accepted? Have a nice day, [1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-06/msg00923.php [2] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-06/msg00932.php -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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